This is Beirut, 22/10 13:50 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
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US Vice President JD Vance warned Wednesday of the tough task ahead in disarming Hamas and building a peaceful future for Gaza, as Washington sought to reassure its ally Israel over the next steps in its ambitious ceasefire deal. Vance met Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the second day of a trip to Israel, part of a diplomatic blitz in ...
Michael al-Andary, 22/10 10:55 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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Some of the chemicals widely used for protection during the 2020 – 2021 coronavirus pandemic are now raising concerns among scientists, with new research suggesting they may have posed unexpected health risks. According to a recent report published by the Financial Times on Tuesday, the European Union (EU) is considering classifying ...
This is Beirut, 21/10 22:55 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
ChatGPT-maker OpenAI on Tuesday announced an "Atlas" search browser, leveraging its artificial intelligence prowess in a direct challenge to Google Chrome. "This is an AI-powered web browser built around ChatGPT," OpenAI chief Sam Altman said in a streamed presentation. OpenAI has ramped up its challenge to Google, which has responded by rapidly ...
This is Beirut, 21/10 14:34 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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US Vice President JD Vance landed in Israel on Tuesday to shore up a fragile Gaza ceasefire deal, after President Donald Trump warned Hamas it would be wiped out if it breached the truce. Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner were already in Tel Aviv, where they met Israeli hostages released by Hamas ...
This is Beirut, 21/10 11:50 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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Moscow on Tuesday doused hopes of a swift meeting of the Russian and US foreign ministers to prepare for a speedy summit between their leaders over the Ukraine war. Following a phone call last week, the Russian and US leaders Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump announced they would meet in Budapest for talks on resolving the war in Ukraine, which ...
This is Beirut, 20/10 15:35 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Monday rebuffed claims by US President Donald Trump that the Islamic republic's nuclear sites had been destroyed by US strikes in June. In a statement on his official website, Khamenei told Trump to "keep dreaming" over the comments on the sites' destruction and questioned the US president's right ...
This is Beirut, 20/10 12:21 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
USA Amazon Web Services Outage Internet
A widespread outage at Amazon Web Services (AWS) has caused significant disruptions across many of the world’s most popular apps, websites, and online services from social media platforms like Snapchat to government websites such as the UK’s HMRC. The issue, which began around midnight Pacific time (10 a.m. Beirut Time) on Monday, ...
This is Beirut, 20/10 09:40 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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OpenAI is ordering hundreds of billions of dollars worth of chips in the artificial intelligence race, raising questions among investors about how the startup will finance these purchases. In less than a month, the San Francisco startup behind ChatGPT has committed to acquiring a staggering 26 gigawatts of sophisticated data processors from ...
This is Beirut, 18/10 21:25 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Max Verstappen made the most of a first-corner collision between the two McLaren drivers to win Saturday's sprint race at the United States Grand Prix and reduce Oscar Piastri's lead over him by eight points. The four-time world champion turned his third consecutive sprint pole at the Circuit of the Americas into a third straight sprint win, ...
This is Beirut, 17/10 22:51 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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US President Donald Trump suggested Friday it would be premature to give Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine, saying as he hosted Volodymyr Zelensky that he hoped to secure peace with Russia first. "Hopefully they won't need it. Hopefully we'll be able to get the war over with without thinking about Tomahawks," Trump told journalists including an AFP ...
This is Beirut, 17/10 19:15 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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The US government shutdown could force the layoffs of most of the employees handling the nation's nuclear weapons, the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee warned Friday. "We were just informed last night (that) the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) -- the group that handles and manages our nuclear stockpile -- that the ...
This is Beirut, 17/10 16:55 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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Donald Trump will hold talks with China's Xi Jinping during the upcoming APEC summit in South Korea, the US president said in a Fox interview excerpt released Friday. "We're going to meet in a couple of weeks. We're going to meet in South Korea, actually with the President Xi and other people, too," Trump said in an interview with Fox News show ...